From: "Puppet People" <puppetpeople-AT-nycap.rr.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:23:15 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Unusual place to perform


    We once performed under a 20 foot metal crown of thorns at a parochial 
school. We were doing our marionette show of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 
and they had us perform in their chapel.
    We were up on the alter and our stage was directly under the crown. Very 
ominous feeling being surrounded by pointy metal sculpture. We stood and 
performed the puppets right in the middle of the thing. It was very weird!!!

Mark
The Puppet People
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Preston Foerder" <preston-AT-pfpuppetry.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Unusual place to perform


> Ahh yes, this reminds me.  I once did a run of Slovenly Peter on the altar
> at Trinity Church (the oldest church in New York City, more like a
> cathedral). I had a giant statue of Jesus on the cross over my right
> shoulder as I was killing and mutilating small children (it's an adult
> show).
>
> Preston
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org]
> On Behalf Of Fred Greenspan
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 8:20 PM
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Unusual place to perform
>
> I performed Punch's Chanukah Adventure - a customized version of my
> Punch's Holiday Adventure - on the bema of the Scarsdale Synogogue. I
> have also performed Punch in the backstage ready rooms at both
> Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center for the Westchester Elementary
> String Orchestra while they waited between rehearsals and actual
> performances. Also did P&J at a scripted medieval wedding where all
> the guests were clothed by professional costume company before they
> entered the great hall at Bear Mountain Inn. The bride was a
> television screenplay writer. There's probably a few others that I
> can't remember right now.
> Cheers!
>
> Fred Greenspan - Traditional Puppeteer
> Ossining, New York
> http://www.traditionalpuppetry.com
> Punch & Judy, Italian marionettes, flea circus
>
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Preston Foerder wrote:
>
>> I once did a Christmas tour of New York City D'Agostino
>> Supermarkets. The
>> store managers objected to having the shows which they considered an
>> annoyance imposed on them by the higher ups. Every time I would
>> show up at a
>> supermarket, they would try to find a place for the show or tell me
>> to find
>> my own place. I performed in produce aisles, in the deli section,
>> in front
>> of closed cashiers, in the place where they usually kept the
>> shopping carts.
>> The PR firm which had hired a number of performers for these shows
>> was fired
>> half-way through the run. When the management was reminded that
>> they had
>> contracts with the performers and still had to pay us for the shows
>> whether
>> we did them or not, they kept the shows going but removed all the
>> publicity
>> so no one in the stores had any idea what we were doing there. On
>> top of
>> this, there were very few children in the stores, so I often had to
>> drag
>> down a child as he passed to perform for (there's audience
>> participation) so
>> I could get in the contracted number of shows.
>>
>> Preston
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-
>> bounces-AT-puptcrit.org]
>> On Behalf Of Geoffrey Navias
>> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 7:26 PM
>> To: puptcrit puptcrit
>> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Unusual place to perform
>>
>> There were a number of venues during our tour of Siberia many years
>> ago that
>> where pretty unusual for an American Company from Upstate NY.  Here in
>> Syracuse, using an old Armory as the setting for a Greek Tragedy
>> with a
>> giant puppet of Zeus played from the roof and the underworld
>> emanating from
>> the ramps down into the lower levels of the Armory was pretty
>> interesting.
>>
>>
>> On 7/20/09 12:04 PM, "Klingelhoefer, Terri Sue"
>> <tklingel-AT-iupui.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Not as good as the others, I think but definitely different. We
>>> once did a
>>> Ramedan show in a dorm lounge for the Turkish Students
>>> Association. We did
>>> some Nazruddin with hand puppets and also some marionette
>>> numbers.  I also
>>> spent a summer doing once a week entertainment at a turkish
>>> restaurant for
>>> turkish tea and the occasional meal.  I wanted experience up close
>>> and
>>> personal with an audience. I always got free tea at that
>>> restaurant and I
>> have
>>> a rather large capacity for hot tea.
>>>
>>> Terri Klingelhoefer
>>> Klingel-Engle Puppets
>>> 7251 West State Road 46
>>> Ellettsville, IN 47429
>>> 812-325-9326
>>> 812-876-3540
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